John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motleywas an American author, best known for his two popular histories The Rise of the Dutch Republic and The United Netherlands. He was also a diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth15 April 1814
CountryUnited States of America
atheist wall men
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.
funny luxury giving
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
pyramids deeds stones
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
self blood government
Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
lying long empires
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
order two people
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
netherlands
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
men people one-man
When did one man ever civilize a people?
practice talent increase
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
liberty empires graves
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
improvement crusades made
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
paper shows barriers
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
enthusiasm
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
century form faded
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.